Speaking stimulus for the topic of Handys / Internet. The first slide acts as a homepage for the activity. Students select an image from the homepage and are then hyperlinked to a slide with a stimulus question. 24 questions in total.
Interactive cloze text presenting a potted history of London's involvement with the modern Olympic Games. Reveals who should have hosted the games in 1944. Will work on PC or IW.
Four short texts in which breakfast habits are described, using present and perfect tenses. The texts are followed by two grammar points, a vrai / faux exercise, a 'find the phrase' exercise, a manipulation exercise and a writing task.
Interactive practice of subordinating conjunctions. The exercise will load a different selection of 10 conjunctions each time and will shuffle the order. Will work on a PC or the IW.
Interactive drag and drop practice of sports vocab. The file has 40 of the sports for London 2012 embedded and will select ten at random to practise each time it is opened. Will work on PC or IW. (PS Typos now fixed following comment below.)
Improbable dialogue in which Bella from Twighlight and Belletrix Lestrange from Harry Potter compare and contrast the different routines of vampires and wizards. Embedded in the text is the complete paradigm of se coucher. The dialogue is followed by a 'Find the Phrase' exercise focussing on the reflexive verb 'se coucher', practice in writing the paradigms of other reflexives, and a gap-fill exercise in which students must supply the correct reflexive pronouns.
Interactive drag and drop exercise, practising German Easter vocabulary. The file will present a different selection of ten items each time it is opened and will shuffle the order of the items each time too. Frohe Ostern!
Text in which a number of young Germans express their views about environmental issues. The text is followed by (i) an exercise in which students must make notes from the text on the causes of environmental problems, the problems themselves and the possible solutions and (ii) a scaffolded discussion.
Two Powerpoints featuring street signs and questions in English, which I have use to practise dictionary skills. The images in the first ppt have been used in resources I have uploaded before, but the images in the second ppt are all new.
Interactive drag-and-drop activity for a bit of random vocab revision in German. 35 words are embedded but the activity will select 10 words at random to practise each time it is opened. It will also arrange the vocab in random order. With any luck it will never be the same twice.
This is similar to meion Haustier which I uploaded previously, but has been edited to suit my Year 7 class. Five authentic blogs about pets, written by relatively young native-speakers.( I've changed the names of the writers and the pets.) The texts are followed by comprehension and manipulation exercises and a toolkit to help the students form a range of sentences.
Structured reading & writing activity for relative beginners. Students have to read the text and then come up with ideas to fill the gaps. Accept any ideas that make sense.
Aimed at Year 13, a series of activities on the topic of human cloning. First there is a gap-fill activity linked to the song 'Klonen kann sich lohnen'. This is followed by a T / F / NiT activity relating to a news report. Students then have to read and sort 18 statements about human cloning into 'For' and 'Against' groups. They must then analyse and categorise the arguments into moral arguments, medical arguments etc. This is followed by a translation into German and an essay title.